You control the demo mainly by left/right dragging the mouse, but some basic, unoptimized support for keyboard navigation is in there as well (Arrow Key/PgUp/PgDn). If you click on a face it will light up briefly and you can now enter a new color in the fields below the canvas.
A guy named Luke recently posted a comment on a three year old post that I honestly had mostly forgotten about: “Canvas 3D Renderer updated“. It was about one of the first Javascript programs capable of rendering a file exported from a 3D program without a plugin.
There are by now several such engines using Canvas 2D, a good deal of them more advanced, faster and better supported. However: TinyDim, which was the name I used when I compiled that sample into a sort of generic Javascript library has its advantages in being small, simple, easy to understand and therefore easy to hack and extend.
So this is a sort of update what has happened since then: I’ve actually used TinyDim sometimes and it has received some level of basic optimization at the code level (it’s still missing any structural optimizations like caching or viz-areas), but I never got around to post about it. It now has support for one global light and has its own mouse navigation class for when you just want to view a static 3D model. Support for colored faces is still only hacked in with a proprietary format (although that would be easy to change, you just have to write a MAT file parser) and It can return the face you’ve clicked on.
So, if you want to hack in texture support using this technique or anything else, be my guest 🙂
Hey Mate can you tell me what other canvas engines are using Canvas 2d?
I am interested to learn about the techniques being used to render 3d images he best way possible but I am having a hard time getting the basics. Are there any video tutrials you could point me to?
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what a proud.